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About (91.04%) of Bangladeshis are Muslims, followed by Hindus (largest-minority) at (7.95%), Buddhists (0.61%) and Christians (0.30%) and others (0.12%) as per 2022 census. Bangladesh has one of the highest population densities in the world. The total fertility rate (TFR) has been reduced by more than two thirds since Independence.
The 2020 Bangladeshi protests were protests by hundreds of thousands of protesters against France, [1] [2] government mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and rape. Protests in Bangladesh erupted on 7 October after a video of a group of men attacking, stripping, and assaulting a woman went viral, Human Rights Watch said.
Bangladesh will need an estimated 34,000 MW of power by 2030 to sustain its economic growth of over 7 percent. Problems in Bangladesh's electric power sector include high system losses, delays in completion of new plants, low plant efficiency, erratic power supply, electricity theft, blackouts, and shortages of funds for power plant maintenance.
Louhajong, Munshiganj. Shariatpur, Madaripur. 6.15 km [5] Completed. $3.868 billion. Or, Tk 30,193 crore. Road and Rail. Padma multipurpose bridge is considered the most challenging construction project in the history of Bangladesh. [6] It is the longest bridge in Bangladesh, and the longest over Ganges River in terms of both span and the total ...
Background. After the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, censuses were held in the years 1974, 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011.The last census taken in the country was the 2011 census, which recorded a total population of 144.0 Million (this figure, however, was estimated by the Bureau to have been an undercount, and the actual population was estimated to be 149.8 Million).
The economy of Bangladesh is a major developing market economy. [42] As the second-largest economy in South Asia, [43] [44] Bangladesh 's economy is the 35th largest in the world in nominal terms, and 25th largest by purchasing power parity. Bangladesh is seen by various financial institutions as one of the Next Eleven.
Since Bangladesh is a parliamentary system, it does not have a vice-president. However, during the presidential system of governance, Bangladesh had a vice-president who would assume the president's role in his absence; the post was abolished by the twelfth amendment to the Constitution in 1991. Removal
The Vision 2021 is an articulation of where this nation needs to be in 2021 – the year which marks the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence. Digital Bangladesh implies the broad use of computers, and embodies the modern philosophy of effective and useful use of technology in terms of implementing the promises in education, health ...